In my quest to understand the MC internals and help make improvements. I'm looking at ScopeKey and wondering what would happen if an unordered collection was used internally (with adjustments made to isParent() of course). I would like to add some contractually comments to ScopeKey that explain the "ordered" expectation, if there is one. Is the ScopeKey ordering so that we will look at metadata in the following order (from CommonLevels)? { domain, cluster, machine, node, jvm, server, subsystem, application, ... } View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4247027#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...